David Bachman, Bachman David

Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China

The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the origins of the Great Leap Forward, a programme of economic reform that must be considered one of the great tragedies of Communist China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780521032339
• ISBN-10: 0521032334
• Artikelnr.: 21053227

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology
1. Introduction
Part I. Historical Background and Conceptual Approach: 2. Overview: Chinese politics and economy, 1956-7
3. Institutions and policy in China
Part II. The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward: 4. The financial coalition
5. The planning and heavy industry coalition
6. The Party as agent of social transformation
7. The views of the top leadership
8. The Third Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee and the Great Leap Forward
9. Conclusions
Appendix: the constraints on Mao
Bibliography
Index.